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The April 2015 Gorkha Nepal earthquake and subsequent aftershocks revealed the relative effectiveness of the country’s National Building Code (NBC) and irregular compli [...]
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Following the M7.8 earthquake on April 25, 2015 in Nepal, an international research team of several academic and practitioner experts in earthquake engineering, disaster [...]
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Understanding Risk Perception of communities is an important aspect for developing risk reduction concepts and programs. This helps authorities, communities and individua [...]
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The April 25, 2015 Gorkha Earthquake of Magnitude 7.8 in Nepal damaged about seven hundred thousand buildings. The main typologies of buildings in the affected area are s [...]
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The Gorkha Earthquake of M7.8 hit Nepal on April 25, 2015. The epicenter of this earthquake was in Gorkha, 80 km northwest of Kathmandu Valley. The main shock was followe [...]
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It is a known fact that heavy loss of life and properties during earthquakes is mainly due to weak buildings and lack of preparedness resulting from the low awareness lev [...]
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Effective implementation of Earthquake Risk Reduction programs requires positive risk perception by the key stakeholders. Risk perception is the internalization of knowle [...]
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The building code of Nepal was prepared in 1994 but it was implemented in 2001 in one of the municipality first, which clearly marked a sign on the bottom- up approach on [...]
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Kathmandu Valley is the most at-risk city in the world in terms of potential loss of life due to earthquakes. Studies have estimated large number of casualties and great [...]
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Existence of traditional knowledge on earthquakes and earthquake-resistant methods of construction in the cultures along the Himalayan range is known for quite some time. [...]
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